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It takes a while to explain the situation to Peeta How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn&039;t question the safety of berries ere preparing to eat ourselves

"I wonder how she found us," says Peeta "My fault, I guess, if I&039;m as loud as you say"

We were about as hard to follow as a herd of cattle, but I try to be kind "And she&039;s very clever, Peeta Well, she was Until you outfoxed her"

"Not on purpose Doesn&039;t seem fair somehow I mean, ould have both been dead, too, if she hadn&039;t eaten the berries first" He checks hinized theive a nod "We call thehtlock"

"Even the name sounds deadly," he says "I&039;ht they were the saize It just ht?" I ask

"I&039;ll get rid of the rest," Peeta says He gathers up the sheet of blue plastic, careful to trap the berries inside, and goes to toss them into the woods

"Wait!" I cry I find the leather pouch that belonged to the boy from District 1 and fill it with a few handfuls of berries from the plastic "If they fooled Foxface,us or so, we can act like we accidentally drop the pouch and if he eats them - "

"Then hello District Twelve," says Peeta

"That&039;s it," I say, securing the pouch to my belt

"He&039;ll knohere we are now," says Peeta "If he was anywhere nearby and saw that hovercraft, he&039;ll knoe killed her and coht This could be just the opportunity Cato&039;s been waiting for But even if we run now, there&039;s the n of our whereabouts "Let&039;s ather branches and brush

"Are you ready to face him?" Peeta asks

"I&039;m ready to eat Better to cook our food while we have the chance If he knoe&039;re here, he knows But he also knows there&039;s two of us and probably assu Foxface That means you&039;re recovered And the firehim here Would you show up?" I ask

"Maybe not," he says

Peeta&039;s a ith fires, coaxing a blaze out of the da, the roots, wrapped in leaves, baking in the coals We take turns gathering greens and keeping a careful watch for Cato, but as I anticipated, he doesn&039;t make an appearance

When the food&039;s cooked, I packto eat as alk

I want to ood tree, and ht, but Peeta resists "I can&039;t cli, and I don&039;t think I could ever fall asleep fifty feet above the ground"

"It&039;s not safe to stay in the open, Peeta," I say

"Can&039;t we go back to the cave?" he asks "It&039;s near water and easy to defend"

I sigh Several - or should I say crashing - through the woods to reach an area we&039;ll just have to leave in theto hunt But Peeta doesn&039;t ask for much He&039;s followed s were reversed, he wouldn&039;t ht in a tree It dawns onhi The playful romance we had sustained in the cave has disappeared out in the open, under the hot sun, with the threat of Cato loo over us Haymitch has probably just about had it with ive hio back to the cave"

He looks pleased and relieved "Well, that was easy"

I work e the shaft These arrows are food, safety, and life itself now

We toss a bunchoff sh I doubt Cato assu at this point When we reach the stream, I see the water has dropped considerably and est alk back in it Peeta&039;s happy to oblige and since he&039;s a lot quieter in water than on land, it&039;s a doubly good idea It&039;s a long walk back to the cave though, even going doard, even with the rabbit to give us a boost We&039;re both exhausted by our hike today and still way too underfed I keep ht see, but the streaely empty of creatures

By the ti and the sun sits low on the horizon We fill up our water bottles and climb the little slope to our den It&039;s not much, but out here in the wilderness, it&039;s the closest thing we have to a home It will be warmer than a tree, too, because it provides soun to blow steadily in froh Peeta begins to nod off After days of inactivity, the hunt has taken its toll I order hi and set aside the rest of his food for when he wakes He drops off i up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for rateful that he&039;s still here, not dead by the strealad that I don&039;t have to face Cato alone

Brutal, bloody Cato who can snap a neck with a twist of his arm, who had the power to overco He probably has had a special hatred forA boy like Peeta would si it drove Cato to distraction Which is not that hard I think of his ridiculous reaction to finding the supplies blown up The others were upset, of course, but he was coht not be entirely sane

The sky lights up with the seal, and I watch Foxface shine in the sky and then disappear from the world forever He hasn&039;t said it, but I don&039;t think Peeta felt good about killing her, even if it was essential I can&039;t pretend I&039;ll iven us some sort of test, she would have been the s a trap for her, I bet she&039;d have sensed it and avoided the berries It was Peeta&039;s own ignorance that brought her down I&039;ve spent sosure I don&039;t underestiotten it&039;s just as dangerous to overestis me back to Cato But while I think I had a sense of Foxface, who she was and how she operated, he&039;s a little more slippery Powerful, well trained, but s in the control Foxface dement in a fit of temper Not that I can feel superior on that point I think of the &039;s ed Maybe I do understand Cato better than I think

Despite the fatigue inpast our usual switch In fact, a soft gray day has begun when I shake his shoulder He looks out, alht That&039;s not fair, Katniss, you should have woken"I&039;ll sleep now Wakehappens"

Apparently nothing does, because when I open h the rocks "Any sign of our friend?" I ask

Peeta shakes his head "No, he&039;s keeping a disturbingly low profile"